The following are back issues of Michigan History, published six times a year by the
Bureau of History, Michigan Department of State. Postage for each magazine is $1.50, plus
$.50 for each additional issue. Approximately 50 pages each issue. Some include additional
material
not listed below.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER, 1991 - VOL. 75, NO. 6 - $ 4.00
- Living on the Edge (Michigan pushed closer to war)
- "This is the Real McCoy!!" (Former servicemen recall bombing of Pearl Harbor)
- "An Inferno of Death and Destruction" (Honolulu residents remember surprise attack)
- "This Monstrosity Count Not Be Happening" (Michiganians recall first news of Pearl
Harbor)
- Autos to Armaments (Detroit became the "arsenal of democracy)
- Making Sacrificesx (Former Governors offer recollections of World War II)
- Reminders of the "Last Good War" (Contributions to history of World War II)
- Charles Collingwood (Was born in Three Rivers, MI)
JANUARY/FEBRUARY, 1992 - VOL. 76, NO. 1 - $ 4.00
- A Most Persistent Past (Wayne Co. archeological sites)
- The Bungtown Canal (Benton Harbor grows because of canal)
- A Car Worthy of its Name (Eddie Rickenbacker's pursuit of dream of building
automobiles)
- Fifty Years of Slavery (Henry Smith describes half-century as a slave in antebellum
South)
- Slave Quarters in Michigan (Greenfield Village boasts southern slave buildings)
- Michigan Goes to War
- Rendering Invaluable Service (First Michigan Engineers)
- Cora M. Brown (First black woman elected to Michigan State Senate)
MARCH/APRIL, 1992 - VOL. 76, NO. 2 - $ 4.00
- Who's Who at the BOH - Archaeology
- We Can Build Tractors Too (Women in WWII labor force)
- La Bibliotheque (Historian Larry Massie & personal library exceeding 30,000
volumes)
- Very Difficult to Let Go Of (Birth & development of Michigan State Police)
- Trapped in Time (Straits of Mackinac's historic fur trade)
- Michigan Goes to War (V-mail held for Michiganians overseas)
MAY/JUNE, 1993 - VOL. 77, NO. 3 - $ 4.00
- Berrien County's Great Peach Boom
- The Ship With Two Lives (Ship George M. Humphrey)
- Lights and Shades of Missionary Life (Methodist minister John H. Pitezel)
- Eric Valleau (Commercial artist)
- Who's Who in the Bureau of History (staff of magazine)
- Michigan Goes to War: Detroit's 1943 Riot
- The Mystery of the Lady Be Good (B-24 discovered in Libyan desert)
- Ralph Johnson Bunche (Born in Detroit in 1907)
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER, 1993 - VOL. 77, NO. 6 - $ 4.00
- Whirlwind Whistle Stops (Pres. Truman's Labor Day visit)
- Electric Avenues (Michigan's electric trains)
- The Greatest Show on Rails (story by Circus historian)
- Stations of Distinction (Railroad stations)
- Riding the Rails (Michigander" bike tour)
- Abandoned Legacy (Michigan's rail network)
- Distinctive Durand ("busiest town in state")
- Michigan Profiles: Elijah McCoy
MAY/JUNE, 1994 - VOL. 78, NO. 3 - $ 4.00
- American Indian Frontier Art
- The Gentle Businessman (Edsel Ford)
- Michigan Remembers "The Longest Day" (June 6, 1944)
- Return to Normandy (Former MSU professor returns to Normandy)
- Mobilizing the Monuments (Great Britain's defense plans)
- Manistee's Field of Dreams (Baseball)
- Ralph E. Hooker (turn of the century lumberjack)
JULY/AUGUST, 1994 - VOL. 78, NO. 4 - $ 4.00
- "Innocent Recreations" (the Michigan Grange)
- Michigan Goes to War (Lucile Lucas Whittier served as hospital train nurse)
- Fordlandia (Ford Motor Co. manufacturing center in So. America)
- "They Hoed the Corn" (Michigan's clubwomen)
- Solving the Mystery of the Persian (Schooner rediscovered)
- Lewis Cass - Author?
- William Herbert Withington (Known as "father of Michigan State troops")
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER, 1994 - VOL. 78, NO. 5 - $ 4.00
- "Anyone Who Couldn't Get a Drink Wasn't Trying" (Prohibition)
- "Whether we wanted entertainment or not, we got it" (1920's Detriot neighborhood)
- Liquid Gold (Prohibition)
- Michigan's Pigskin Gladitors (high school football players in 1890's)
- "Use it all; Wear it out; Make it do; or Go without" (America's home-front rationing)
- Berrien County's 4,000 Year Old House (archaeology)
- Geraldine Hoff Doyle (prototype for Rosie the Riveter)
JANUARY/FEBRUARY, 1995 - VOL. 79, NO. 1 - $ 4.00
- Tribute and Transition (New official state historian)
- The Case Against Milo Radulovich (McCarthyism)
- They Died to Make Men Free (Civil War regimental histories)
- Legacy of an Unlikely Friendship (Autobiographical drawings by Sitting Bull)
- Building the Barn (Barn building in 1916)
- Michigan Goes to War
MARCH/APRIL, 1995 - VOL. 79, NO. 2 - $ 4.00
- The Case Against Milo Radulovich, Part Two
- The House That Lewis Built (1914 ready-cut homes)
- Tops with Lincoln (One man's 60 year study of Abraham Lincoln)
- Lois Bryant Adams Goes to Washington (1864 visit to weekly reception by Pres.
Lincoln)
- Signature on Glass (Stained glass windows created in 1870's)
- Michigan Goes to War
JULY/AUGUST, 1996 - VOL. 80, NO. 4 - $ 4.00
- Stars and Stripes Over Michigan
- Almost Vice President (Thomas White Ferry)
- Chemistry on Canvas ( Dow Chemical Co.)
- Symbols of Michigan (State symbols)
- The Last Lightship (the Huron, a National Historic Landmark)
- What Lies Beneath the Green? (remains of munition plant in southern Kent Co.)
- Capturing the Dream (Exhibit at Detroit Institute of Arts)
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER, 1996 - VOL. 80, NO. 5 - $ 4.00
- "Our only option was to attack" (Michigan Naval Brigade in 1898)
- "Nice Fellowsd and Good Brave Men" (Michigan National Guard)
- The Men of Ninety Eight (Spanish war fighters)
- Logging the Nester Tract (1878 lumber baron Thomas Nester)
- From Feathers to Fashion (turkey quills)
- Wayne County Celebrates its 200th Birthday (State's first county)
- Webberville's Stonemasons
- The Dearborn Independent
- A China Doll for Abbie
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER, 1996 - VOL. 80, NO. 6 - $ 4.00
- When Christmas Was Just Another Day (Civil War)
- Cars of Class (Detroit-Dearborn Motor Car Co.)
- Resurrection of a Great Lakes Steamer
- Three Brothers, A Lady and a Crayfish (shipwreck)
- Red Scare in Bridgman (convention in 1922 of American Communists)
- Sabotage! (German agents in 1942)
- Everything Old is New Again (presettlement vegetation maps)
MARCH/APRIL, 1997 - VOL. 81, NO. 2 - $ 4.00
- The Bronze Buckaroo Rides Again (Only African American singing cowboy on silver
screen)
- Van Raalte's Settlement at 150 (Holland, MI)
- They Never Forgot: Michigan Survivors of the Titanic
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